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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-14

Grabtree & MartinsS0 81 Mrs Backman IS
The bill Of Dr. Robinson, of Andalusia,
of $20.15 your committee by order of
supervisor Bowman, allows one half, or
SOLO. The bill of A. II. Wendt, of
Yuma, for S12 burial services allowed at
$40 The bill OF VIM. Myers, of Coal
Valley, for $1S 50. allowed at $40 for
burial services. The bill of Dir. Freytag,
of Edgington, for S122 allowed at $40
for burial service.
Your committee to whom was referred
the petition of G. B. Graves and others
for the disposition of the caae Of George
Linquist. would recommend that he be
sent to St. Luke's Hospital, Rock Island
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-14

Lehigh university has Mustard and
Cheese Dramatic club"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-03-14

J. H FOSTER. Committee
The committee on poor su omitted the
following report which on motion OF Su
peryisor Aster was received and adopted:
Your committee on poor would beg
leave TO report that they have examined
all claims presented before them, and
recommend the payment Of the follow
ing, and that the clerk be directed TO
issue orders for the several amounts To
the several claimants, towit:
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-07-07
Made Him Feel at Home.

A Missourian who was stopping at ;
Chicago hotel complained so loudly anc
with such frequency of tho water that
the proprietor called the manager ant
said;
"That old fellow is worrying me very
much. l don't want to insult him, ye
when he PERSISTS in saying that we hav'
no water that is fit to drink it makes
me mad. There he comes"
"Say. lan'lawd, I'll be dinged eft i
amt strange that yer KNIT git no water
fitten ter swaller. I'm about dead fol
a good drink"
"Tll get you some," said the mana
ger. "Wait until come back"
The manager took pitcher and
went away. When he returned, the
old fellow had stepped out.
"What have you gotP" the proprie
tor asked.
"Water from the Chicago river"
"Great Caesar! 1t will kill him"
81 don't care IL it does. Hush
Here he comes"
"Fotch that water yitp" the old fell
low asked.
Eyes, here it is"
He took q drink, ''smacked" hi
mouth. took another drink, put dowr
the pitcher. and said:
"Why didn't you git this at fus
without hangin' backP Keepin' it flu
heightened fellers, ehP Wall, l want
you TO understand that I'm as good u:
anybody"
"What sort of water do you drink al
homer" the astonished proprietor ask
ed.
"The best in the world. We git
right outen the swamp whar 1t is pure
an fresh. want ter give you lttl'
piece of healthy advice" he added
again reaching for the pitcher. "Wher
a gentleman stops at yore house, /
don't make no diffunce how he is dress
ed. give him the best you've got. All.
taking another drink, 'this do maxi
me feel at home, "-Arkansaw 1rar
| eler.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-07-07
HOMES FOR woRkINoMEN.
APlan Proposed by New York Busi-
moss Man-The Home Hunger.

A Plan Proposed by New York Busf-
moss Man-The Home Hunger.
George Peabody gave homes to tho
workingmcn Of London. Erastus Wy
man. a New York business man, pro-
poses in The Epoch business plan by
which he can give homes to the work.
ingmcn Of New York, His plan CON-
bines the work OF building and the life
insurance companies. To illustrate.
Suppose man buys house for $4,000;
he will be asked to pay $500 down and
given four years at $500 each to liqui-
date the balance. II he lives, it is ex-
pectcd that he will pay the entire
amount; II he dies, the agreement is
that his wife gets the house and lot
without any further payment. So that,
whether the husband lives or dies. tho
family is sure of house and lot. The
short term insurance for the amount
of the cost of the house can readily be
put on the mans life, and il he dies
the insurance company pays to the
building company the amount of the
policy.
Here is suggestion for some OF the
Boston philanthropists who do not
object to doing good in way which
has in it solid principles of business
success. The plan is one which would
appeal particularly to the wives OF
workingmen, the more thrifty and con-
servative representatives Of the labor
ing community. Women whose hus-
bands earn less than 500 week, and
who are obliged on small incomes to
care for their households, feel the need
of homes of their own with keenness
which the jewellers in luxurious city
flats never experience ard cannot
guess. The desire of premanence is
almost passion, and these women re-
alize their inability to care for their
families in case of death OF their hus-
bands much more strongly than is sup
posed by those who imagine that the
poor live chiefly in the cares and pleas
ures of the day. A home of her own
means great deal to the wife OF a me-
chanic. for example 1t is an unattain-
able castle in Spain to most of them
To put home within reach of more
workingmcn would be practical char
ity which would be we'll worth while,
and charity in the revised version,
doesn't mean aims giving by any
means, either. Boston advertiser.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-07-07
The Age of American Literature

A few weeks since the writer
visited Abbotsford, the home of Sir
Walter Scott and wandered through
the magnificent library of that great
literary genius, containing twenty
thousand volumes. all remaining inpre-
clsely the same condition as they were
when he died, fifty-fve years ago. The
printed catalogue of the library does
not contain the name of single Amer
lean book This catalogue was COM
piled before Sir Walters death, which
occurred in 1882. At that time we had
no author known outside Of our coun-
try, unless 1t might be Samuel G. Good
rich, who published many children's
books over the nom dc plume Of peter
Farley" Daniel Webster related once
that when he was in England, in 1910,
some of the children whom he met in
quircd of him with great interest If ho
knew Peter Farley in America AT
the time of the death of Sir Walter,
Washington Irving, Fenmore Cooper,
and William Cullen Bryant had just
commenced their literary careers;
George Bancroft had not commenced
his history of the United States; Holmes,
Hawthorne, Emerson, Stowe, Prescott,
Webster, the photographer, and Mot
lev, were only about to start on their
literary undertakings. Catherine Sedg-
wick had achieved home reputation
as novelist; Lydia II. Sigourney was
considered TO be the Hemans of Amer
lea; and we had no monthlies or quar-
terlies worthy of the name. Such was
the condition of our literature in 1882,
when Sir Walter Scott had not read an
American book. No wonder that sgd
ney Smith, to vent his spleen because
he had met some losses in Pennsylvania
bonds, exclaimed, who reads an
American book Pr To-day, were sgd
ney Smith to rise from his grave, how
his eyes would stare in apazcment
when he read In the papers that the
circulation of the reprints of American
monthlies in England is several times
greater than the circulations of all the
British and Scotch monthlies combn-
ed Such is the advance of American
literature in little more than half q
century. What will it be in the next
half century p Cleveland Leader aud
Herald
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-07-07
Court proceedings in Dakota.

Court Proceedings IN Dakota-
A man was brought before a justice
OF the peace in Dakota ''no-llccnse"
county, charged with selling liquor
The sheriff who made the arrest also
brought along.a large demijohn Of
whisky which he had found on the
premises.
"Jes' femme see that jug o licker."
said the Judge.
1t was handed to him, he pulled oul
the cork. tilted it up, and took a coup
10 of large swallows. Then he turned
to the prosecuting attorney and said;
Pretty good stuff, hey ?"
~ don't know anything about it
your honor"
TRY it, then try it--gosh all hem
lock! this hain't no individual affair
take good snort Of 1t !"
"Your honor, never drink"
Don't drink, hey don't b'lievt
ye've ever been admitted to practice,
then! Hanged if | don't make "
show up yer papers for it fore anoth
or trial. Well, here's lookin' Mt you
ducks again p Then, turning to the
sheriff, he added: That's the pure
quill, amt it. Ike ?"
"Pears to be-"
Il lowed ye wouldn't bring it in
'thout hittin' it. Want o irrigate
again P"
Don't care il do"
The demijohn was passed over to the
sheriff and he and the attorney for the
defense and the witnesses and the pris'
oners all sampled it. After the judge
had taken another pull at it the attor-
ney for the defense arose and said:
"Your honor, it doesn't seem to mi
that anyone can be convicted for sell
ing such good liquor as that"
"rsh cused if | don't b'lieye ye'sf
jes' bout right, cap'n. Psh these fell
lers shells poor stuff what we sh after.
II think so. your honor"
"Corsh. Prishner's d'sharged."
"Hold on" said the prosecuting at
torney, "this isn't legal"
"Shut up-ye'sh fined ten dollarsf
contempt Shay, boys, it's thesh
drug stores we're after. They shelli
poor whisky. Thisscourt shtands adj
journed Ike, ye 60 an rest all the
drug stohr fellers in Their whole town.
Jes' leave thsh dem john right err
with err co'rt an it'n be all RICH ?'-
Dakota Bell.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-07-07
A Hint to Smokers.

Says man who is himself grea
smoker: "What can men be thinking
of who light cigars or cigarettes, no
only On the elevated stations. but some
times before they get Off the cars
They surely forget that they are making
themselves offensive to any ladies whit
may be present not to speak of men,
Such lack Of consideration on the part
of presumably well bred men is incom
prehensible to me, and makes me al
most determine to give up smoking
much as enjoy it; for it looks q
though the habit Of smoking tended t
make men indifferent to the rights O
others"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-07-07
"UptoId Agony from Catarrh.,

Prof. w. HAUsNER, the famous mesmerist.
of Ithaca, ". y, writes "Somc ten years ago
] suffered untold agony from chronic nasal
catarrh. My family physician gave me mp us
incurable and said / must die. My case was
such a bad one, that every day, towards sun
set, my voice would become so hoarse could
barely speak above whisper. In the morning
almost strangle me. by the use OF DR.. Sage g
Catarrh Remedy, in three months, was q well
man, and the cure has been permanent"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-07-07
"Constantly Hawking and Spiiting."

THOMAS j. RUSHING, Esq, ssos Pine Street,
81. LOitis, NO., writes: IL was great sufferer
hardly breathe, and was constantly hawking
and splitting, and for the last. eight months
could not breathe through the nostrils i
thought nothing could be done for me. Luck
Remedy, and am now well man. believe
It to be the only sure remedy for catarrh now
manufactured, and one has only to give 1t
fair trial to experience astounding results and
n pprmnnpnt cure"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-07-07
Hints to a Faster.

Cap. William Murchison. Of Jockson
Tenn, has swallowed no food or drink
for eighty six days. He would be
about the right man to start liter
airy periodical in Chicago. -NeSo York
World
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-07-07

The preacher lives BY the golden rule, the
printer BY the brass rule, and the teacher by
the fcrule.-New Hares Ncsc<
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-07-07
Three Bottles euro Catarrh.

ELI RoBBINs, Runuan p; O., Columbia Co.,
Pa, SAYS: "My daughter had catarrh when
she was five years old, very badly. l saw DR..
Sage's Catarrh Remedy advertised, and, pro-
cured q bottle for her, and soon saw that 1t
helped her; a third bottle effected perma,
sound and hearty"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-07-07
D R. w ASSERT 9

To Young and Middlc-Aged Men n
Sure Cure!
The awful effect of early vice, which
brings organic weakness, destroy both the
mind and body, with all its dircful Ills,
PERMANENTLY CURED!
Palpitation Of the heart, bmidity, trcm-
bling, nervous discharges, so much TO ny
feared forgetfulness, lack of ideas, sadness
IF spirit, ugly imaginings, dislike TO solfsl
life and brooding melancholy.
Married Men, or those entering on that
happy life, aware of physical debility, ex-
citablity Of the nerves, organic diminution
or other Irregularities, quickly assisted.
No Minerals Used.-Y0 Dung people los
ing their health, and spending time with
those unskilled and unqualified, causing
fatal disorders TO the head, throat, nose,
liver and lungs, stomach and bowels, speed
lily cured.
Let not false modesty deter you from call
ing ut once.
All Private Matters Cured!
Prompt attention is given 10 all correspon-
dcnce. State symptoms, and medicine will
be sent G. D. ID. everywhere.
DIR. Wassersug IN q regular gradute OF
10 years. practice. Diploma y Office
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-07-07
AND OTHER PRINCIPAL CITIES

Take train for the Southeast via Little hG % arc
Louis Take either the $50 m or % = p m S 1911 ~
the West Take the 200 m or $50 p M rams I aso
and
American steamship Line
andhe between New YORK.
Antwep
For m particularsor uckets call on
II MI FER. Travelling Passeng Agent, Dallas, Tex.
p depotand 5B Main street. d. a.
& a. TicketA veri. East llnas
Ticket Agent Daist Wv
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-08-13

either in long lines or packed like
sheep on the wharves are enough, if
anything is enough, to make a
Clearly person 60 unwashed rather than
endure the consequences of mingling
with such crowd in such place, even
when one is confident that ones fancy is
more to blame than fact Really, the
baths that are not free, to which the best
folks in town go to cool off, are very
little different. To be sure, one is at
the Battery another is in Hoboken, and a
third is in Harlem, in all of which places
the water is as nearly clear as it is posi-
bic for water so near a big city to be, but
the crowd of perspiring humanity is
quite as great. Indeed, if you were to
step down to Battery Park on any after
noon in July, August or September, you
might imagine yourself getting into one
Of Henry Georges anti-poverty meetings
or any other hot or multitudinous gath
erlng, so great is the concourse of per-
spring men, waiting their chances to Sc
cure towel or key to dressing-room.
The little square of wafer in the bath in
closure, on such occasions, is so full of
humanity that no one can put out foot
or an arm toward swimming without
assaulting his neighbor; but the water is
cool and that is all that the most exciting
swelterer asks.
JULIAN RALPH.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-08-13
SHE UNDERSTOOD RACING.
Still She Was Willing to Risk Little on
Good Pointer,

A middle-aged woman with solemn cast
of countenance, and wearing plain black
dress, approached Colonel Dan Scott secre-
airy of the Sioux Falls Turf Association, one
day this week and said:
''Sir, understand there is going to be
some boss racing here next week."
"We expect to have some races, madam"
$50 l heard. A lot of gawkies are going
to get on the track with two-wheeled sulkies
and fence-rail horses and lean over and saw
on the lines and crack the poor beasts with
short whip and holler and crowd and try
to get ahead of each other
why, why, madam"
Then big crowd of bald-headed old
hypocrites and corn-stalk dudes will stand
around and bet on the hosses."
"Why, madam, l suppose there will be
some betting"
"Then there will be lots of old blokes up
boss does come in ahead"
'N-o. O no"
Don't you mo- me; tell you they will all
be drunk! Then man with mouth like
new cellar will stand up and sell pools on
the races, and lie, and cheat, and break the
law
Pm sorry madam, but
II know it's all so! And the race will be
sold by the owners, or some miserable driver
will be paid to throw it, and if an honest
man does bet on it he'll get beat out of his
money"
Madam, I'm sorry that you appear to be
so much opposed to horse racing'
Me opposed to horse racing?'
II gather so from your remarks
"No, sir, not much; | just understand it,
that's all. What l called for was to see if
you couldn't give me pointer on which is
going to beat. I've sold heating stove and
winter cloak, and I've got my eye on a
longlegged gray mare, but l don't want to
80 and put the money on her unless she's
going to get there on the homestretch. I'm
willing to whack up what got for the cloak
to anybody thatll put me on to dead sure
thing to put the stove money on r'-Dakota
RpH
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-08-13

the light toilets now worn, made Of crepe
de Chine. stlrah, India silk, foulard or fine.
soft woolens. They are made up with light
fluffy draperies and garnitures of fine laces
very delicate valenciennes. Chantilly and
marquse laces being especially popular
Very lovely for young girls are dresses
made wholly Of dotted point d'Esprit net,
trimmed with rows of picot-edged MORE
ribbon. One of these is of pure white
net, with three rows of white ribbon on the
lower skirt and on the draperies. The low
necked pointed bodice is white MORE with
short putfed sleeves and a scarf of net over
the shoulders that is drawn over the bust and
strapped across with rows of ribbon,
forming a sort of V-shaped sromacher.
Rosette bows of ribbon are on the
shoulders and bow with long ends is at one
side of the waist. Another dress is of en-
broidered white crepe and pale green satin
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-08-13

death, gather in crowds on the decks of
these boats, deeply enjoying their two
cent, or, at the most, three-cent vaca-
tions.
But there are hose who are too poor
even for this apr arently inexpensive re-
course. They ar, too far from the fer
ries, or haven't the pennies to spare.
They are the ones who transform the
wharves into watering places all through
the midsummer in the evenings0and I
assure you the wharves are not such bad
places to put in an evening away from
the baking walls of town, especially if
you 60 to them as these folks do with
crowds of people you know, to while
away the hours in the cool river draught.
Others besides the invalids HE there
lads with concertinas and girls to hear
them play, and to sing the words to the
popular airs they evoke so skillfullv
OF course, it goes without saying that
other lads go there to meet the girls,
so that the consequence is that there
IS sure to be an impromptu ball, and
of the merriest kind, on at least three out
OF every five uptown piers on every sum-
mer evening. Painters need not go to
Europe to study picturesque work-a-day
lie as they DO, tor among the plenty OF
material always at home there is nothing
more pretty, poetical or picturesque than
the scenes on one of these city wharves
with the girls and boys dancing under
the ships bowsprits and among the bales
OF merchandise, their ribbons flying and
their faces glowing with fun and health
while along the string piece ,on either side
of the dancers, sit the invalids, the tired
workmen and wives, and the lines of boys
and girls singing the ballads of the streets
The belated or the early-rising citizen
sees every bench in the. parks occupied
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-08-13

The white silk skirt is covered with three
tlounces of the crepe the lowest one caught
up with garland of fine white flowers and
fern leaves. The square train is of satin, and
the bodice is shirred and drawn up around
the shoulders with aribbon. A princess fan
of white feathers is carried in the hand.
Some of the handsomest of the dresses seen
at the leading modistes are those prepared for
afternoon wear, of silk bengaline, faille and
other rich fabrics. These form dressy tot
lets for visiting. church and home wear,
combined with costly lace and trimmed with
handsome passementeres. In the gown
illustrated both the back and front views are
shown. 1t was Of blue silk bengaline, with
panels and a rounded plastron of beaded
white embroidery. Loops of jetted cord fall
from the waist, and bell-shaped ornaments
are added at the foot. NORMA BLAKE.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-08-13

by recumbent sleepers on these hot nights,
and most persons suppose that all such
loungers are tramps, but they are not. The
thoroughbred tramp is too particular and
luxurious to stay in town in hot weather
The police insist that all Migrants shall
sleep in the station-houses, and as these
are not to be compared for comfort to
cool country barn or cooler farm wagon,
the tramps all take to the country as
soon as warm weather sets in There may
be few sprinkled among the sleepers on
the park benches, but the police tell me
that the great majority of these al tresco
dodgers are young, and even old men,
VINO have homes in the tenements, but
prefer to camp out on the hard benches
rather than stay indoors and battle
against suffocation instead of sleeping.
With the men on the roofs, or in the
parks, or asleep on the sidewalks, the
women have the tenement beds to them
selves and are better able to endure the
intense heat.
These free baths are very like
magnified eel-pots, and though the
water flows freely through them and
must be constantly changing g, even more
rapidly, if possibly, than the relays of
bathers, yet the river-water is at best of
the complexion of restaurant soup; and
the large crowds of perspiring humanity
OF Doth sexes that are always seen
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-08-13

added.
The pretty and becoming Nanon poke
bonnet Of black is Worn with the Gghtest
and most dressv of toilets, q bonnet Of this
description, trimmed with pink primroses
and small jet pins and lace and jet
mantila forming the complement to an
evening dress of pink India silk and white
lace.
For dancing dresses to be worn at water
ing places, etc, nothing can be pretter than
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-08-13
FASCINATING PROFESSOR CARO-.
How He Exercised Influence Over the
Aristocratic Ladies of Paris.

How He Exercised Influence Over the
Aristocratic Ladies of Paris.
In the political excitement Of the hour the
public gives small heed to the news of NJ.
Caros death. The professor and lecturer at
the Sorbonne fascinated the ladies of the Fau-
bourg St, German, though many of them did
not understand what he said. There was
m usic in his words which chung to their ears.
His lectures on Schopenhauer's pessimism
had the effect of smelling salts on many an
indolent brain. He seemed bright and clear,
and yet was hazy. He used to take his fair
hearers to the uppermost heights of meta
physics, iuggle with ideas, and then take
them down again. I don't suppose any of
them were the wiser for hearing him discuss
such questions as the first and final causes
Is there evidence of plan in this world?
Where are we to look for tokens of a purpose
running through creation? What are we to
think of the case science is making out against
spirtualism? Is life worth living? He ap-
peared ardent and enthusiastic, but was
simply wonderful artist. NJ. Caro- was of
Jewish and Italian orig gin, and a native of
Poitiers, town whore Ultramontane Cathol-
icism still prevails. He was educated at
the College Stanislaus, a school directed by
secular priests. He lived Liberal Catholic
of the Montalem bert shade, and died in the
arms of his church.-London Daily Meas.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-08-13

the large hat here illus
trated, which is Of white
chip and brown chenille
woven braid trimmed with
a tuft of lilies-of-the valley
and brown bows in front.
A charming bonnet, made
by the skilltul hands of the
mOdiste in the same way,
of white and liIac-twisted
braid, was trimmed with
pale heliotrope ribbon bows
and a wreath of lilacs.
Double strings of narrow
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-08-13
WEAK AND DELICATE PERSONS

WEAK AND DELICATE PERSONS
GENERALLY who require some arti-
fetal restorative-and especially those
who are inclined to Consumption
will find this preparation exactly
suited to their needs. 1t is specific
for the Coughs and Nervous atfec-
tons usually incident to low state
Of the system.